#Dnd 5e pitfall trap full#
#Dnd 5e pitfall trap free#

This is the sorcerer who enhances their allies' abilities or tears down their enemies abilities with potent afflictions. The sorcerer combines magic and a silver tongue to exert their will in such a way that their targets think their actions are of their own accord. A wizard might forgo proper etiquette in favor of using powerful social magic to make others act in a specific manner. Turning friends against each other, navigating the social minutia with aces hidden underneath their sleeves. This is the sorcerer who loves ****ing with people's minds. While he might dabble in one or two control spells, the vast amount of his repertoire is in eliminating opponents with the one true form of cc: death.

He's able to nova on demand like nobody else's business. This is the sorcerer who loves blowing **** up.

Ability Score Improvement: Pretty standard.

Metamagic: The only reason to play a sorcerer (besides RP / flavor) in 5e.

Short term versatility, which is actually really good but you need to be careful as to how you use it.

Flexible Casting: Inefficient spell point system -> convert spell slots to sorc points and convert sorc points into spell slots.

If you aren't careful with your spell selection you can really hamstring yourself. You only ever know a max of 15 spells, which is less than a warlock.

#Dnd 5e pitfall trap full#

Spellcasting: Full Casting albeit with an extremely limited list (unless you are a divine soul).You aren't a tool expert and can grab a few with backgrounds if you have a specific RP interest in mind. Honestly I'd still probably go with persuasion and deception if I were you. Skills: Honestly you have a bit of options but the only ones you should consider taking are the conversational ones (persuasion, deception are golden skills) and possibly arcana if nobody else in your group can afford to take it.CHA is less useful, but when it comes up it's usually save or suck. Saving Throws: CON is a major 3 save AND for a caster who can't afford to drop concentration on damage is beyond useful.Weapon Proficiency: Limited but who gives a flying care.But you have shield and mage armor or other methods of getting AC 13 + dex. If you can live till level 3, you should be fine. Hit Dice: The d6 is the worst you can have.Additionally lets you be slippery in social encounters -> persuasion and deception are golden skills. Charisma: Casting stat, which should be enough for you to know to max it.Intelligence: This is only really worthwhile if you plan on taking ritual caster wizard.Constitution: Concentration is super important for casters most especially twinned haste sorcerers, one of the 3 big saves, and of course hit points.Dexterity: Affects your initiative roll, AC, and one of the 3 big saves.Strength: Only necessary for multiclass gish builds.Basic Guide to Core Class Features and Roles.This is bad but might end up coming in handy under very specific circumstances.It will regularly be useful but might go unused at times. This is a good choice, but there might be better options.This is freaking amazing! It provides many options, or will do one thing extremely well.

This should only be ignored under very specific circumstances or for fun/RP reasons. This is a must take unless you want to gimp your character.

#Dnd 5e pitfall trap free#

As with all optimization guides, feel free to neglect the advice whenever it makes sense for RP or fun - what this game is ultimately about! It is an effort born from my frustration with a lack of a truly updated sorcery guide - most of the current sorcerer guides have neglected newer subclasses or are slanted with outdated rulings on metamagics. This guide is an attempt at optimization of the updated sorcerer (xanathar's, volos, scag, and recent UA). Whatever the case may be, the end result is that the sorcerer is the best in the world at whatever he sets his mind after. Sorcerers either take to blasting the ever living hell out of their enemies, controlling the ebb and flow of every element in a battle, or getting people to do things against their better sense. They are deeply specialized in whatever field flows naturally from their fingers and lips. Unfortunately the downside to never having to work for it, is that sorcerer's tend to not be well rounded magic users. They've spent their whole lives letting their name and talents take them places, and where those have failed, their natural charisma owed to their supreme self-confidence in their abilities see them through to safety. Their natural intuition is enough to do things with magic that the most learned of wizard's could only dream about. The sorcerer is the magically gifted the student who neglects all of his studies but manages to wing the test and break the curve.